Fence



0. JOHNSON.

I FENCE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE I5. 192|.

Patentedsept. 26,1922'.-

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OIJOHNSON.

FENCE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE I5, 192I.

PatentedSept. 26, 1922.

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Patented Sept., 26, 1922.

o'rro JOHNSON, or rnnnnanniviicriiean.

FENCE.

Application led .Tune 15,

To all rwhom #may concern.'

Be it known that Lv OTTO JoHNsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Freeland, in the county of Saginaw and State of Michigan have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fences; and I do hereby declare the vfollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled inthe art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of the inventionis' to'provide a Aconstruction of fence panel adapting it to be made in sections at the factory and to be set up by the user or consumer, practically without the use of tools other than those incident to the setting of the posts or uprights and capable of being run in any desired direction and of having the elementsk arranged to form right angled or other corners as may be necessary to meet the requirements of the line upon which the fence is to be erected, and with this object in view the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is an elevation of one complete panel of a fence constructed in accordance with the invention showing the adjacent end of the adjoining panel to show the joint in a straight run of the fence.

Figure 2 is a plan View enlarged of the adjoinino` fence panels at the joints when the pane s are arranged in alignment.

Figure 3 is a horizontal sectional view on the plane indicated by the line 3 3 of Figure 1 showing the arrangement of the lower elements of the joints between the adjoining sections when the latter are arranged in alinement.

Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 3 with the adjoining panels arranged in angu lar relation with each other.

Figures 5 and 6 are perspective views respectively of the opposite ends of a complete panel.

Each panel is preferably composed of detachable sections or members 10 and 11 pf which the main horizontal upper and lower elements 12 and 13, connected by the upright filler bars 14 and the terminal channel bars 15, are of hollow construction. The ller bars are preferably bifurcated at their extremities to respectively engage the longitudinal extensible members of the panel 192i. serial no. 477,789.

and/are riveted'thereto as indicated at 16- wire runners 17? may be extended between the. upper and lower ends of the terminal channel bars as ,indicated Y a i At the extremities of :each panel are arranged the upper eyes 18 andl 19, arranged in differenthorizontal planesas indicated,y so that when the complemental ends of two adjoining panels are arranged in engagement with a common post 20, the eye 18 bears upon the eye 19. At the bottom of the panel, in substantial alignment with the lower main extensible bar are arranged the paral lel tongues 21 adapted for engagement with the adjacent post while at the opposite end of the panel as a complementary post engagin means is a single tongue 22 curved as in icated at 23 to embrace the post and having a terminal extension 24 adapted to engage with the channel bar at the adjacent end of the adjoining panel of the fence as indicated in Figures 3 and 4 of the drawings, the engagement of said extension being either wit iin the adjacent channel bar or outside of the same, according to whether the adjoining panels are arranged in alignment or at an approximate right angle to each other.

The parallel tongues 2l. at one end of the panel are disposed in a plane below the single tongue 22 at the opposite end of the panel, so that when these elements are ar ranged` in .engagement with the same post as indicated in Figures 3 and 4, the tongues 21 are arranged beneath the tongue 22, and the length of the tongues 21 is such that when the adjoining panels are in alignment they also engage the adjacent channel bar of the adjoining panel. When the adjoining panels are arranged at an angle or approximately a right angle with each other the parallel tongues 21 while embracing the post do not engage the adjacent channel. bar of the adjoining panel at opposite sides, but pass between the post and said channel bar, so that the bearing of the latter against one of the tongues serves to give rigidity to the joint and hence stability to the structure. The panels being preferably constructed entirely of metal are not readily displaceable by ordinary strain, but when used as line fences between fields in which hogs are confined, it may be desirable to employ cotter pins 30 engaging the post above the upper terminal eye to prevent the animals in rooting from lifting said eyes over the upper ends of the post.

ln order to take down the fence,vthe end panel or the last panel erected in the fence is. tilted to disengage the tongues 21 from the post and then raised to disengage the loop 18 from said post. rlhe loop 19 of the neXt panel then may be disengaged from the post by raising the last mentioned panel.

Having thus described the invention, what 1 claim 1s:-

1. A fence panel having terminal upright channeled bars and upper and lower post engaging means of which the former consist of eyes, the lower post engaging means at opposite ends of the panel consisting respectively of parallel tongues and a single i ,ascesa tongue, arranged in di'erent horizontal. planes and terminally arranged respectively in different Vertical planes.

2. A fence panel having terminal upright channeled bars and upper and lower post -enga 'ing means the u er ost en aging b t3 7 b b means consistin of eyes arranged in dif ferent horizonta planes, and the lower post engaging means consisting of longitudinally extending tongues arranged in dierent horizontal planes, the tongue at one end of the panel being duplicated for straddling engagement with the adjacent post and terminal engagement with the channel bar of the adjoining panel.

In testimony whereof l afX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

orro Jonnson. a

Witnesses:

Lou Fox, BERT Fannie. 

